Rail unions: ‘Bosses drive for profits cause of derailments’

East Palestine protests demand health care, control
Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Town hall meeting in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 15, 2023, 12 days after toxic train disaster. Residents won support of rail unionists in their fight to gain control over cleanup, health care.

Working people in and around East Palestine, Ohio, refuse to be helpless victims. They’re organizing and protesting, demanding control over the ongoing cleanup and long-term health care following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern railroad derailment and release of toxic chemicals.…


Warrior Met miners protest at Vanguard Group headquarters

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
United Mine Workers and supporters demonstrate at Vanguard Group investment company in Malvern, Pennsylvania, June 6, demanding Warrior Met Coal rehire miners with union intact.

MALVERN, Pa. — Several hundred United Mine Workers of America members and retirees and other unionists demonstrated at the Vanguard Group investment company headquarters here June 6 in solidarity with Warrior Met Coal union members. They are demanding to be…


CL campaign: ‘For solidarity with union battles today’

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Félix Vincent Ardea, Communist League candidate in Montreal, speaks at June 12 candidates’ debate. “Our campaign aims to help strengthen unions, struggles of workers, farmers,” he said.

MONTREAL — On June 16 Communist League candidate Félix Vincent Ardea, a Canadian National Railway freight conductor and Teamsters union member, and other CN Teamster members joined a 150-strong solidarity march of strikers and supporters of the 330 United Steelworkers…



288 dead in train crash in India is result of workings of capitalism

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

Working people worldwide were horrified at news coverage when at least 288 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in a head-on collision between government-run passenger and freight trains in India June 2. Rail bosses’ drive for profits at…


Corrections

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

In the Militant article entitled “Forum protests FBI attacks on constitutional freedoms” in issue no. 22, the sentence accredited to Cynthia Wilson was actually information taken from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department’s practices…


Working people in Ukraine step up defense of national independence

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

The Ukrainian government has launched a counteroffensive aimed at retaking territory seized by Moscow’s forces since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country to try to subjugate its people. Ukrainian forces are making slow gains in fierce battles, while the…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

June 29, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — Hundreds of unionists and others gathered outside of the General Motors Delphi East plant on June 11 to greet some of the 5,800 union members expected to join the strike against the auto giant.…


Los Angeles Militant Labor Forum panel discusses fight for constitutional rights

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

LOS ANGELES —“Defend constitutional freedoms: Oppose U.S. government spying, harassment and frame-ups” was the topic of the May 21 weekly Militant Labor Forum here. Speaking were Mwezi Odom, from the African People’s Socialist Party, and Norton Sandler, from the Socialist Workers…


Legacy of colonial rule, crisis of capitalism fuel fighting in Sudan

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Legacy of colonial rule, crisis of capitalism fuel fighting in Sudan.

Bloody clashes between the Sudan government’s armed forces and now insurgent paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded April 15 in Khartoum, so far killing more than 1,000 civilians and wounding over 4,000. At root is the legacy of imperialist exploitation and…